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Alcohol and Crime: Data from 2002 to 2008, Michael R. Rand, William J. Sabol, Michael Sinclair, Howard Snyder, September 3, 2010 “This webpage includes analyses from four data sources: the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), the Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities (SISFCF), and the Survey …
Gulf of Mexico Fact Sheet Sep 1, 2010: “This fact sheet contains current annual production data for oil and natural gas from the Gulf of Mexico, the hurricane season outlook, and the current tropical weather outlook from the National Hurricane Center.”
Follow up to President Obamas Address on Iraq via Poynter Online – AP: ‘Combat in Iraq is not over, and we should not uncritically repeat suggestions that it is’, Memo from the AP’s standards editor, Tom Kent, Thursday, September 02, 2010 ” Many AP staffers are producing content that refers to the situation in Iraq. …
News release: “The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that obligations for federal domestic spending increased 16.0 percent in fiscal year 2009 to $3.2 trillion. The 2009 spending total is equivalent to $10,548 per person living in the United States. The annual percentage change (16.0 percent) is the largest since the Census Bureau began compiling these …
News release: “The nation’s 89,526 state and local governments employed 16.6 million full-time equivalent employees in 2009, statistically unchanged from 2008, according to government employment data released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Part-time employees numbered 4.7 million, not statistically different from 2008. Local governments accounted for 12.2 million full-time equivalent employees, and state governments had …
Survey of Credit Underwriting Practices 2010, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, August 2010 “The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) conducted its 16th annual underwriting survey to identify trends in lending standards and credit risk for the most common types of commercial and retail credit offered by national banks. The survey …
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, Causes of the Recent Financial and Economic Crisis Before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, hearing, Too Big to Fail: Expectations and Impact of Extraordinary Government Intervention and the role of Systemic Risk in the Financial Crisis, Washington, D.C., September 2, 2010 “If the crisis has a single lesson, it is that …
Preliminary Staff Report, Governmental Rescues of ‘Too-Big-To-Fail’ Financial Institutions, August 31, 2010 “The purpose of this preliminary staff report is to describe governmental rescues of financial institutions during the decades leading up to the financial crisis and during the crisis itself. Section I provides an executive summary of the report. Section II describes how federal …
“Very timely Justice Department data show that Immigration Judges are declining substantially fewer requests for asylum. Denial rates have reached the lowest level in the last quarter of a century according to a new analysis by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). Twenty five years ago, in FY 1986, almost nine out of ten (89%) …
Birthright Citizenship in the United States, A Global Comparison By Jon Feere, Legal Policy Analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies “Every year, 300,000 to 400,000 children are born to illegal immigrants in the United States. Despite the foreign citizenship and illegal status of the parent, the executive branch of the U.S. government automatically recognizes …
Fiscal Space, Prepared by Jonathan D. Ostry, Atish R. Ghosh, Jun I. Kim, and Mahvash S. Qureshi, September 1, 2010, IMF Staff Position Note “The fiscal challenges facing advanced economies are unprecedented, and bring to the fore questions about how to assess fiscal sustainability. Intertemporal solvencythe notion that governments eventually repay their debtsrequires only that …
Executive Excess 2010: CEO Pay and the Great Recession, by Sarah Anderson, Chuck Collins, Sam Pizzigati, Kevin Shih: “The 17th annual executive compensation survey looks at how CEOs laid off thousands while raking in millions.” “Corporate executives, in reality, are not suffering at all. Their pay, to be sure, dipped on average in 2009 from …
